"One of us had loved the other more perfectly, had watched the other more closely, and one of us listened and the other hadnâ€™t, and one of us held on to the ambition of the one idea far longer than was reasonable, whereas the other, passing a garbage can one night, had casually thrown it away."

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Source : Nicole Krauss (2011). “Great House: A Novel”, p.39, W. W. Norton & Company

Nicole Krauss

#Love Quotes #Ambition Quotes #Night Quotes

“Grab reality by the balls and squeeze.”
“I like being liked, who doesn’t? But I love being hated.”
“And I think from a male perspective, we have men talking about their feelings and it being okay.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“A truly international field, no Britons involved.”
“As followers of natural science we know nothing of any relation between thoughts and the brain, except as a gross correlation in time and space.”
“Acting is many things. Acting is playing lines, of course, but it's much more profound than that. Acting is truth-telling, and trying to find the truth in a human situation, which will be sketched out by a screenwriter with all the skill that a screenwriter can do; but in the end, that's just the map of the journey. The actor's job is to divine and embody the truth, and find it.”

Source : "NYFF: Tom Hanks and Paul Greengrass Talk Captain Phillips". Interview, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. September 29, 2013.
“What he said was: "You obviously don't know where the bar should be, and you're only going to do a disservice by putting it anywhere." And boy was that good advice. Because what he said was, you obviously don't know where the bar should be, and you're only going to do them a disservice by putting it anywhere.”
“A mechanism of some kind stands between us and almost every act of our lives.”

Source : Sarah Patton Boyle (2016). “The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian’s Stand in Time of Transition”, p.372, Pickle Partners Publishing

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